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Month: May 2016

Saw New Hampshire Representative Al Baldasaro on Facebook today, and I have to say he is right. As far as I’m concerned the media has had a built in bias for many decades. Trump and his team have a challenge ahead of him. Unsurprisingly, I think he will succeed.

I met Al at the Trump rally in Waterville Valley. He is a great proponent of gun control. Use a gun during a crime, and you go to jail. A lot of folks do not like Al, because he does not confirm to norms. However he is right on this one.

After Trump takes on the media, and wins. He will come to the greatest challenge of his life. The D.C. bubble. Yes, D.C. is it’s own world, with its own massive inertia. Most people agree D.C. needs to be changed, however most people do not agree on how it needs to be changed. Trump will pretty much go headlong into eliminating waste and corruption. However one person’s waste is another person’s gravy. I’m thinking that by the second year we will have all forgotten about the pettiness that preceded the election. New battle lines will be drawn.

So what is wrong with the nice lady that is in charge of the largest political organization in the free world? Let me count the ways.

The continuous trashing of her political opponents. She and her organization fell back on name calling long before Donald Trump arrived on the scene. Remember the vast right wing conspiracy. A conspiracy formulated as a reaction to Bill’s misogynistic tendencies. It is a formula that has served her well. However it does not always work, the proof is Barack Obama.

Her stunning support of the second Iraq war. I was flummoxed by the entirety of the liberal press being in agreement with G. W. Bush about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear capability. That fact was made even more incredulous by the fact that that there was no solid evidence that Saddam had the bomb. Today I believe the only reason the Democrats supported the war was to blame Bush. Ponder that.

There is as much hard evidence to support climate change as there was to support the evidence of Saddam’s bomb. The biggest evidence of climate change is the omnipresent claim of its fact by the liberal media. It is true that there is a measurable correlation between carbon and historical temperatures. However there is no reasonable evidence that carbon dioxide begat increased temperatures, and not vice versa. I have personally looked for reasonable evidence, and have not found it. Look hard enough, and all you find are threats.

The Middle East mess. Sure we have cheap gas, however gas is cheap in part because we supported radical pirates that sold oil well below market rates. By supporting such radical extremist privateers we have helped father the worst refugee crisis since WWII. Truly the worst foreign policy in decades.

The inner city rage. The liberal agenda has not helped the inner city poor. Crime is up, violence is up, poverty is up. Welfare delivers Democrat voters, and rage. Worse it delivers resentment. What they need are jobs, and respect. I am not saying it will be easy, it is never easy. Encouraging rage is not the answer.

These are just the major reasons, there are a number of other reasons that could be just philosophical, reasons for a rational debate. Unfortunately days of rational debate are gone. The mantra of the Democratic party has been, when it comes to power and control, the ends justify the means. That’s why Donald J Trump will win. He is a master media manipulator. For years the Democrats have manipulated the media without rational debate. The Republicans have been unable to mount a solid challenge, till now.

I am who I am because of manufacturing. For better or worse I have been a factory worker for many years. There is a certain satisfaction to making things. It is things that we make that make us who we are. The more we make the more we have.

Look at how the skylines evolve around the world’s cities. The skylines tell the story of growth, or the lack of growth. What has happened to our skylines? We have become stagnant. Listen to the stories of the skylines.

Remember the White House Plumbers? Well recently the plumbers union decided they need more work, the economy is a bit slow you see. So the White House decided that they would make fifty percent more bathrooms with a stroke of the pen. Now there would be not only bathrooms for Men and Women, but there would also be an extra bathroom for Whatever.

As the de facto head of the Democrat party, Hillary has control of the largest political organization in the free world. It is many orders of magnitude larger than the Trump political machine.

Gravy is the power of the Democrat machine. A little bit of gravy here, a little bit of gravy there, it is the grease of the of the Gravy Train. Hillary ladles out the gravy for votes, a mighty machine it is. Donate a little money, get some gravy. Gravy for the poor, remember who to vote for. Gravy for the Unions, remember come elections. Can’t we all get aboard the Gravy Train?

So what powers the newly minted Trump Train? Enterprise and hard work. So instead of waiting for the Gravy Train to pull into the station, the Trumpkins built their own train. It came about after the realization that there is no more gravy. Without gravy there is no Gravy Train. So what makes gravy? Enterprise and hard work. Yes jobs, people need jobs. Jobs that society can afford. That is what the Trump Train is to me.

So as we watch the slow self destruction of the Gravy Train, the Trump Train powers on, because it can. It is that simple.

The scene opens with a fancy serving tray filled with a variety of drinks. As the camera slowly pans out you notice that it is being carried by a man in a tux. A large hand offers a cup of coffee as a familiar voice says, “care for a cup of coffee?”. As the tray is carried around the fancy room different drinks are offered. In addition to the first coffee (wake up America) there would be carrot juice, milk, tea (for the partiers), soda and beer(s). Myself, I would have a Tanqueray and Tonic. So the camera pulls back whilst the drinks are being served revealing Donald J Trump in all his glory. At that point CGI of Hillary Clinton appears and wipes Donald J Trump with a fine cloth. Then the camera comes in for the close up with Donald saying “Make America Great”.

Sure the idea is silly, but if I saw it, I would burst out laughing. Then there could be different ads at different locations, beaches, sporting events, camping. Nobody knows hospitality better than Donald, capitalize on it. Then there is Hillary Clinton wiping down the server. It is of course a play on her home grown server. What a way to make Donald look good.